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...tree, feeding peanuts to his pet elephant, beaming fondly at his squalling, illegitimate offspring, governing the country as The Meritorious One, a title officially conferred on him by Venezuela's Congress. For fun he brought famed Juan Belmont from Spain to fight bulls, played much with his favorite toy: a barber chair specially imported from the U. S. So many citizens hurried out to Maracay to reaffirm their loyalty by his coffin last week that the road was blocked for hours...
...here is Willy! And he's a fine looking man. But there he goes again pushing that toy car up and down the long corridor. He pushed it all day yesterday; he'll push it all day today. He calls his toy "Packward". It's his constant...
...soon to be employing 800 hands. The population cheered, paraded around the village common. Gilbertville, once a model industrial town, has been depressed since its mills closed four years ago. ¶ At Winchendon, Mass. some 500 men & women worked in two 8-hour shifts to supply a record-making toy demand. Leading items: hobbyhorses and miniature baby grand pianos. ¶ Allegheny Steel reported a 1935 (ten months) increase in alloy sales of 16% by volume, 18% by dollars. Allegheny specializes in "Allegheny and Ascoloy Metals," chromium nickel stainless steel alloys. ¶ In the year ended...
Where, then is the need for a big navy, or for that matter any navy at all? Perhaps some, like President Roosevelt, find them charming pleasurecraft, and like to review these little toy ships. Others may get a destructive joy out of breaking a perfectly good champagne bottle on steel, with an associated delight in thinking how easily the pop-guns overhead can snuff out lives and happiness. But it is impossible to subscribe to the logic of our esteemed contemporary, whose editors apparently believe that all of the people can be fooled all of the time by a trick...
...responsible for the sensible suggestion that the adults in La Maternelle should wear no makeup. Otherwise, credit for dialog, direction and, to a large extent, photography goes to Jean Benoit-Lévy, who adapted the picture from Léon Frapié's novel. Son of a toy manufacturer, bespectacled, 47, Director Benoit-Lévy, whose Itto, dealing with Moroccan revolution, is the current cinema sensation in France, selected his cast from slum children who had never acted or even learned to recite. Paulette Elambert, a rather ugly little girl with a big mouth and sad intense...